Science
Because the United States is still developing domestic spacecraft to transport its astronauts into space, NASA has been forced to extend its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for crew transportation to and from the International Space Station.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of meteoroids hitting the rings around the planet Saturn.
On YouTube, Mind Blow provides a video on what is trending in science. Check it out!
NASA wants to establish a lunar base, but would like to have private enterprise do it. The U.S. space agency has contracted with Bigelow Aerospace to plan an initial design for a permanent outpost on the Moon.
A partial lunar eclipse will occur on Thursday/Friday, April 25/26, 2013, and will be seen in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
NASA has compliled 3 years of images of the Sun by its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to produce a YouTube video called “SDO - Three Years of SDO Images”.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket was launched into space on Sunday, April 21, 2013. All Systems Nominal was the call heard during the launch of the Antares.
An experiment submitted by two Canadian high school students to the astronauts on the International Space Station is shown in a video. And, it is quite interesting what actually happens when a hand towel filled with water is wrung out in space.
Bell Labs Chief Scientist Dr Alice White has attended her first meetiing advising Australia’s Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET).
On Friday, April 12, 2013, Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites had their SpaceShipTwo rocket plane glide over Mojave, California, for the second unpowered glide test. It may be a precursor for the real thing: a powered flight.
